The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-02-10
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1t is believed that the Chinese in Cali
fornia ''salt" from $1,000 to $1,000 in
silver dollars every week.
More than $4,000, 900 feet of lumber
has been used in the construction OF
snows.eds on tne Northern PacJt - Il.
Fees paid the lawyers in the Morgan
$50O,OO0. The estate is worth Sl0,000,-
600.
Tho Queen of Roumania is daughter
of the Prince Won Wied and a grandniece
of Emperor William. She is decidedly
literary in her tastes.
There are 2,127 pensioners in North
Carolina. the smallest number in any
state of the union. They relieve the
government of $4,000 annually.
Out West it is proposed to have bal
lot-boxes in railway car. SO that coun,
try voters living along the road need
not be obliged to drive so far.
A sign of convalescence from Anglo
mania appears in New York. where a
.'ilabit MAKER" announces that he Is
prepared to furnish English clothes
with an American tone.
A Pennsylvania coal-operator has
ttClOhI SHi SSOhi ~ 'SSSN--~
to his miners on the method of pro-
cedure in tho many emergencies that
arise from mine accidents.
"A man said to me the other night.
remarked a clergyman, 81 would not
have missed your sermon for $50. and
yet when the plate was passed round
that man put in penny"
Three men in flagstaff. A. T.. tolled
all one night to get a barrel supposed TO
contain whisky out of cellar and
away 10 their camp. When they tap
ped it they found that it contained kero-
aene oil.
A New York physician having direct
ed one of his patients to bathe wound
in tepid water. the patient sent his little
girl 10 the drug store with note say
ing: '.Please sell bearer one-haif pint
oftepid water"
The Emperor of Austria, who is a
great smoker. has been ordered by the
doctors 10 give up the fragrant weed.
They attribute his neuralgia to it. His
Majesty was in the habit of smoking
twenty cigars daily.
The official Investigations made in
Prussia relative to the causes of mine
explosions show. among other things.
that many explosions attributed to fire
damp. or outbursts of gas, are really
due to the fine coal dust i'll mines.
Brooches representing an oyster shell.
upon which rests a tiny crab in red
enanicl, are bizarre fancies of the
hour. A realistic hair-pin is pea pod
of frosted gold half open, displaying
nine pearl peas. An enameled snail
nips one of the peas.
The telescope for the Lick Observa-
tory is TO be az feet long and AZ inches
in diameter, and will cost $l64, $50. 1t
will be 30 delicately adjusted that it can
be manipulated by the observer at the
eve end, where he will have command
of all its motions.
A new material this season has been
successfully introduced us railroad
cloth. 1t is described us heavy ribbed
and very SOFT and is very stylish for
Jackets as well as masltles. No demoi-
selle of the times should be without one
of'these railroad wraps.
Louisville, Ky, is said to have social
riles that are remarkable for their
laxity. Almost any man with gentle
manly appearance and good address
can VITA little effort get into society
there; and the young women are pro-
tected V. ry little by their mothers.
In Washington dwell two men who
own SO much bric-a-brac that they have
moved into larger house to accom-
modate it. Among other rare things is
q screen, such as is used in eastern
harems, made of carved wood. with
curious little windows which open and
shut like doors.
There Is very mean man in Port
land, Ore. He keeps big store in the
center OF the city. Several nights ago
. special policeman found the store
door unlocked, and sent hack to the
merchants house to notify him. The
merchant walked down and locked the
door. but left the policeman to pay the
hackman.
The King of Cambodia, according to
the correspondent of Paris journal,
has 800 wives, chosen from the hand
soonest women in the whole country.
The entire population and territory be.
long to the king. All the Cambodians
are the kings searmen' or slaves, and
pay him rents. The king himself be-
longs to the French Resident-General.
As an evidence of the truth of the
assertion that many young Mormon
children are taught the art of perjury
from the time they begin 10 talk, Salt
Lake gentleman who is familiar with
the facts says that he knows of a little
boy scarcely two years old who. on
being asked what he would say if the
deputies came. answered. 81 would say
my papa dead"
A Napa, Cal, man thought he saw q
sea serpent in the river there. but it was
only solid mass of little fishes, each
about an inch aud half long. The
school was about fifty yards long and d
yard wi,le, and headed up stream. The
commotiOn they made was caused by
hundreds of large fishes that were con
tinually throwing themselves among
and eating up the little ones.
George Greer, of Santa Maria, Tex.
dreamed three times that box con
tanning $1,000 in gold was buried under
ono corner of his house. and had /;
party oil friends help him remove tl,
building and search for the treasure
After digging down several feet anG
finding nothing he gave it up. 1t cos
him $500 to have the house returned Il
AA8 DLdCC duu 1DT.
III. Rouvier declined to be the sue
cessor of Paul Bert in Tonquin because
he could not get the life-insurance com
panies 10 issue him Il policy to go there
NJ. Grevy tried hard to persuade him to
go. Only think" he said. you will
have $4,000 Il year salary. $1,000 fol
your funeral. and 81. 400 year pension
for your widow" But even that pre-
sentation of the case did not prevail.
There lives in Portland, Me-, M
Francois Radoux, who was born il
Brittany in 1890. He was soldier o
Napoleon for years; was captured b,
the English and given his freedom fo
saving ap English officer from drown
ing. He came TO this country the yea
after the battle of Waterloo. He mar
ried for his second wife Susan Dingley
an aunt of Nathaniel Hawthorne. III
is in good health and plays both tn
piano and violin.
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